/lit/ - Literature

Hey. Let's rather not.

>>16895875
My Polish stack

To read

>>16895951
Cheer up sourpuss

got these bad boys today

>>16895951
Gb2leddit

why do you all read such worthless trash

>>16896279
What do you read meme boy

>>16896279
How do you know it's worthless trash?

>>16896288
i read the greeks

>>16896292
>bitch probably can't read Koine Greek

>>16896586
this is true
I need to up my game

>>16896127
Blixen. Nice.

>>16895875
Finished AOTD, halfway through Ellul now. I want to continue in the same area but I haven't decided with what yet. Will probably read Ellul's Propaganda too. Then maybe something by Mumford, and Hobsbawm's Industry and Empire.

>>16896642
I skipped the 50 page long speech about money in Atlas Shrugged

>>16896623
Thanks. Hemingway recommended it

>>16896685
These are some good books anon, I definitely want to get into Ellul myself

>>16896810
His style may scare you at first since it's very dense and has a vast scope. Just keep reading though. His key points are simple, and he explains them in at least three different ways (usually) so you should never miss the bigger picture. You should go for it, that book will make you more educated on what is transforming the world and why than the vast majority of people around.

Just bought these 10 minutes ago

>>16897072
sociopath or sperg?

>>16896642
smooth brain

Kino based red pilled book choice my doomer coomer fren, keep up the work against the CRINGE e girls. And of coarse stay kek and blackpilled lads!

>>16897081
Aspiring dictator/cult leader so maybe both plus a little schizo.

what are stack threads? are they books you're planning to read or books that you've already read?

>>16897239
>Aspiring dictator/cult leader
Don't forget of your homies here when you have all that impressionable pussy
>>16897241
the first

>>16896642
terrible

>>16897630
Dumb frogposter

Some of my dad’s American story collections; are any of ‘em good?

>>16897824
All of them honestly. Carver especially.

>>16897824
yes.

Christmas gifties.
The darker book near the bottom is Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy. Also not pictured, because Amazon are fucking retards:

Jung's Memories, Dreams & Reflections
Seneca's On the Shortness of Life

>>16896242
conglomeration of works that don't belong together, get better taste frog.

>>16897842
>>16897905
Thanks anons, Carver does look promising, I think I’ll just start with that one.

>>16897944
I buy what I can find in used bookstores at a reasonable price anon :(

>>16896066
how's Poland?

>>16898543
Pol-ish

>>16896642
For me, the best part about this photo is those awful looking flip flops. Those make this picture - should I say it? - legendary

>>16896642
>dangerous faggot
>cool guy sunglasses
>shoes on top of the fish bowl?

>>16897252
>don’t forget us
You will join or die

>>16895875
What even is a "stack thread"? Stack random books to look smart? There's no fucking way you pseuds are reading 8 books at once could you please fuck off.

>>16895875
Dhksifb djdj sbsjkwks fhihsh. We are all going to die. God is time. Consciousness is one. Love of others is the best thing that the world can give. God's grace leads to seeing.

>>16896907
What's up with your fascination with guerrilla warfare?

>>16896907
you're one of those guys

>>16900310
posten sie deinen fussen

>>16896827
Take your meds, schizo.

>>16897072
You're either going to found a hippy commune or go innawoods depending on how autistic and socially inept you are. Good purchases.

>>16898543
I live in England. Poland's really nice tho whenever I go there..

>>16896642
KEK but based

>>16896642

Hows the Douglas Murray. He's pretty on video, made the Globe and Mail writer Doug Saunders seethe

>>16898677
>>16897241
stupid newfags

>>16896907
Ayy it's you again. Based

I spent the last couple months just rereading Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, so I decided to just big dick it and fill out the rest of the library and stayed steeped in the Greeks/Romans for the next while. It comfy to change books but the characters remain within a shared genealogy.

>>16900310
Zeig Füßchen

The too read stacks. About half of one stack is stuff to re-read. Trying not to buy anymore books buuuuut

>>16901192
And the stack on the right form ebola and up is what I've read this year so far. Been slacking very ashamed.

>>16897081
Are those mutually exclusive?

>>16896066
>tfw Polish but gave up reading Polish books after reading the canon because Poles are unable to write about anything other than their own country

>>16901575
If you couldn't tell already by the books, I'm only just getting into reading Polish lit, so I don't know about all that. Honestly though, I think the thing I enjoy about it all is just the Polish language itself, especially when it's put into poetry.

Trying to juggle the greek plays with poetry and prose

>>16895875
latest haul

>>16898677
Most of the books I posted were lying next to my computer in a stack because I had used them in a research paper.

>>16900268
>>16900291
So I spend nearly all my time on /k/ and have for almost a decade, but I quit my job 2 summers ago to go to school full time rather than part time. And during the summer I needed to find something to do. So I stumbled into a /lit/ thread on /k/ and saw some interesting military history books.
Eventually I read Mao's On Guerrilla Warfare and the IRA's Green Book and found them absolutely fascinating. I started reading and downloading all the books I could on guerrilla warfare and the way that this "new" (it's really been around since the 1770's) style of warfare flips modern warfare and strategy on it's head is just very interesting.
I find reading a very taxing activity, probably because of my ADHD and epilepsy, so much so that before about 2 years ago I had only read 3 books.
But this subject was just so interesting to me that I am reading just about every day and have gone out of my way to find obscure monographs written on it.
And every chance I could, I chose to write about guerrilla warfare in my classes and it made it so much easier to write and research because I was motivated.
So now I've attached my Mao paper to my resume and am probably gunna apply to some gov jobs at the recommendation of some anons on here and friends and family that work in intelligence agencies.

tl;dr: It's an interesting subject and helps motivate me to read and write.

>>16902371
Based sperg

>>16901734
I'll get back to them at some point but for now other things are more comfy. Hope you enjoy them, godspeed anon

>>16896232
I have more fun reading my books than taking pictures of them for show.

>>16896685
Good stuff

>>16902473
Fair enough mate, what kind of stuff you been reading recently then?

>>16902371
nice man. hope you branch out into other military stuff. start reading william s. lind and some john boyd.
t. former infantryfag

>>16902811
Thanks. I actually finished 4GW Handbook like 2 weeks ago.

>>16902811
btw also look into h. john poole, you'd enjoy it

>>16902064
>the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
Explosive thesis. Skip the second half of the book; it's all esoteric medical studies and the point is well made in the first half.

>>16896066
You should read the Polish logicians.

>>16903394
Aright, give me some names and I'll look into reading them.

>>16896642
>all these newfags getting baited

These I keep close because I mean to read soon some, a few I've already read.
>>16900310
Nice stack, hadn't heard of Koeppen, will check him out.
>>16901679
That's a nice edition of La celestina, have you read it yet? Hope you enjoy it either way it's always a nice read.

>>16897777
nice digits but you're still a faggot

>>16904005
How is Berlin Alexanderplatz?

>>16901037
How do you like that translation of the thebaid? Trying to decide which one to get.
Same question for euripides, I got the penguin classics version and found it bad.

>>16904155
I had to drop it halfway because school got in the way but what I read was good, I'd recommend it. The translation itself is also very very good, if you read it definitely get this one.

>>16901192
Fellow Buchanite.

>>16903372
I'm confused